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Elizabeth Leach
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“I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.”
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"This was one of the most amazing books that I've ever read.
I was anticipating a novel about how Jesus' wife bickered with the disciples and that's why they wrote her out of history. In fact, that preconception put me off the novel for a bit because I" Read more of this review » |
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“Why are men afraid of women?"
"If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear," Ged said. "Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves." "Are they ever taught to trust themselves?" Ged asked, and as he spoke Therru came in on her work again. His eyes and Tenar's met. "No," she said. "Trust is not what we're taught." She watched the child stack the wood in the box. "If power were trust," she said. "I like that word. If it weren't all these arrangements - one above the other - kings and masters and mages and owners - It all seems so unnecessary. Real power, real freedom, would lie in trust, not force." "As children trust their parents," he said.” ...more Ursula K. Le Guin |
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“He was so intense, so serious, armored in the formality of his rank and yet vulnerable in his honesty, the purity of his will. Her heart yearned to him. He thought he had learned pain, but he would learn it again and again, all his life, and forget none of it.”
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“If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.”
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“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
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“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
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“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
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“I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”
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